The Mad Hughesy

Sometimes knowing you’ve done the right things to hook that target species is a win in my eyes. Good stuff

i dont know about being allowed to or not, but i know friends of mine used to catch plenty of smaller trevally just off the rocks in their little boat

yeah do tell haha

Towards the mouth is was very clear the further up the passage towards mission was still very dirty

My brother and i hired a boat out for the day on Sunday for a days fishing on the passage. Plan was to collect yabbies and fish a bunch of flats and drop offs for whiting and flathead, as well as throw plastics as we drifted. Collected heaps of yabbies (more than we needed as we let a lot go at the end of the day) and motored up the passage looking for a spot to fish. We ended up fishing at poverty point, misson point and a bunch of flats in the passage for a really poor days fishing. we ended up with a handful of legal whiting, 2 tarwhine, 2 bream one squire and a flounder. i cant believe that for 8 hours fishing we could find a single flathead. i didn't get a touch on any plastic (zman minnowz, holt production swim prawns, squidgy flick baits, zman slim swimz) which was very weird to me. i fished hard all day with plastics and bait for very little reward. Was a very long day with alot of waiting in between bites. Still nice to be on the water

considering i didn't even pay a slab for both of them combined! just happy to pass them on

Gday all, was going to throw these up on facebook market place but couldnt be bothered dealing with clowns. Given that one of the sets is fish related, i thought id give them away to someone on AFO that wants to come pick them up for free! Maybe just send some good fishing karma my way as payment haha

jigs work well, they will also take small hard bodies and small plastics. there was alot of tips and discussion about them on a recent topic (below)

we will be hunting them in the pumicestone passage

Anyone fishing the challenge this weekend? ill be fishing it for the first time, target species is flathead.

another this to consider Hamish is the cost of a motor plus a big enough battery to run it for a long enough amount of time, would pretty much put you into second hand tandem hobie territory. ive seen tandems go for just over $1000 second hand. Its rare but does happen! i bought my hobie outback for $900...thats a steal! great thing about a hobie is you can go alllll day and your legs wont really get over tired. Will change your fishing forever

the yellow belly seem to have alot of natural colour variation from gold to really dark, to speckled like this one a very cool fish in my eyes

nice whiting mate. if there were jewies around the whiting would have made a great live bait...although a tough call to use as bait when they taste so good!

looking forward to it!

so i have to ask..do you have a big session planned for the 100th fishing trip? maybe even a report with your top captures over those 100 sessions. another good write up mate!

its that exact thought process that keeps a fisherman coming back for more! love it always exciting when fishing a live bait, no better style of fishing i reckon

tend to agree with your Ray. That documentary on Netflix is an interesting watch, but does not touch on the Australian industry at all. If our industry was as evil as others are, then rec fishos would be able to catch a feed every day of the year...which some do. its no secret that overseas commercial fishing is a joke, we can all agree on that. what i do find funny is when rec fishos crack it and blame the commercial guys for not being able to catch anything. got nothing to do with their abilities at all

Yeah mate that place closed up a long time ago. There are no hire places on the pine anymore. You can go with boab or Brisbane boat hire but both are fairly expensive or better still, find a friend with a boat and throw cash at them to take you out lol

If you don’t find anything, you can always test it yourself using a fish weight measure device or bag weigh device. Like in this video

alot of local jetties hold pike and they will take a bait jig consistently. otherwise like @Breaming with bro suggested, really small plastics. they have small mouths and cen be difficult to hook. they will also hit very small hard body lures such as the ecogear sx40

Oh yeah my part time job is lord and savior to all of mankind. If you could just place your donations in the bowls and pass them to me that would be much appreciated. Oh and ill put in a good word for you at the pearly gates.

you should be a politician

it is a bit. it is the worlds second most farmed fish due to their great nutritional content. However the damage they are capable of in Australia far out weighs the nutritional benefits. If we allow them to be eaten, more people will ant to farm them and stock them which would have a disastrous impact on our local fish species wicked fun to catch though, easy to target and pull hard on light gear. used to catch 50-100 at a time at Pine rivers park years ago, we even had a social there with this forum

as far as im aware you are not allowed to transport them (which would incude using as bait). the only thing you can do with them is kill them and throw away or bury far enough away from the water. you can read more here https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/1238076/tilapia.pdf this is a snippet of the above Tilapia are a category 3, 5, 6 and 7 restricted invasive fish under the Biosecurity Act 2014 (the Act). They must not be kept, fed, given away, sold, or released into the environment. A permit to deal with tilapia maybe given in limited circumstances. If caught, tilapia must be humanely destroyed immediately and disposed of as soon as practicable by burying a suitable distance from the waterway where it was caught or placing it in a rubbish bin. The Act requires everyone to take all reasonable and practical steps to minimise the risks associated with invasive fish under their control. This is called a general biosecurity obligation (GBO). This fact sheet gives examples of how you can meet your GBO. There have been isolated reports of people keeping and/or moving tilapia around the State – this is an offence and the fish must be destroyed.

has to be long enough so you cannot hear any "constructive criticism" 100m should do the trick